Description

As featured in This Old House Magazine: "A must for us."
The Woodshop Widget is a rich collection of wood-related utilities, ranging from board volume calculation to shellac mixing aids, squareness testing and many other goodies. It is useful in woodworking as well as in DIY and construction/contracting projects. It contains a wide range of functionality that handles many tedious tasks simply and clearly.
The Widget understands Imperial and Metric, and the local measurement system for your iOS device is used by default. You can change this at any time with the app settings. It also uses a custom keyboard for quick access, making editing both efficient and immediate.
Be sure to check out the online companion site, which includes all of the same features, at woodshopwidget.com!
Movement
Shows an estimate of how much a board might grow and shrink under different conditions, based on verified information for over 270 distinct species. You can enter measured or humidity-based water content, board width, and how the board was cut from the tree (anywhere from flat to quartersawn). The amount of change is shown as you edit.
Board Volume
Easily enter the 3 dimensions required for calculating board volume and get an immediate amount. You can also enter a price and quantity of boards for a total price. The local currency is automatically used when entering prices.
Compare
A species comparison tool that lets you walk through information on up to 288 species of wood, comparing hardness, density and movement. It even shows you which species is "better."
Compound & Crown
Create compound miter cuts with any combination of angles! Cuts for crown molding, cupolas and sloped boxes have never been easier to make.
Decimal to Fraction
Enter fractions and see the decimal results, or enter decimal values and see fractions calculated, all in one place. Remainders and reduced fractions are automatically shown.
Species
A species data viewer which also includes "other names" for up to 288 species.
Shellac
Mix or dilute shellac in any amounts. Enter a "pound cut" and the measurements are balanced for you. Mix as much or as little as you need, using not only gallons and pounds, but also cups and ounces or liters and milliliters. Dilute from any pound cut that you have on hand to any other concentration, instantly!
Squareness
Test your framing squares, combination squares, carcasses or anything else that needs a perfect right angle for accuracy by measuring lengths. The Widget will show you how far from "right" the angle is.
If you have any problems, please email: uhoh@woodshopwidget.com.

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Reviews

Good app, however...

3

By They Call Me LC

This is a nice app and usability is pretty intuitive. One thing that is super frustrating is the board volume calculator. It works well at first use and allows you to determine expected costs at the lumberyard by calculating board feet, based on advertised price per board foot. The frustrating part is making adjustments when, say, you're calculating costs of different species.
You would think that you would put in your dimensions and then just change the price per board foot for the different species, but if leave the app, get a phone call, turn you phone off or your phone goes to sleep mode, all of the dimensions reset and you're left with having to put all that info in again. Sounds minor, but super frustrating when you're trying to do calculations even within a 10-15 time frame.
I hope that can be fixed in future versions. Otherwise, still a decent app!

Don't

1

By NH Law

What a piece of junk. This stupid program doesn't give me a keyboard to use to enter any values or measurements.
Pure junk.

Good but needs some pics

3

By Kowal070

This is a handy little app with some great features. Really wish they would add some lumber pictures though....maybe some raw pics and some pics of a species under finish...otherwise, it's a nice app.

Can’t recommend

2

By Leslc

This is the same app that I downloaded on my MacBook quite awhile ago. It was free then. And that is about what it is worth. Not worth the current asking price.

Woodshop Widget

3

By drill_sgt_03

app is pretty decent for calculating board foot total and cost, and the wood library has most types of lumber but its missing some of the most common types (like Cherry for example, kind of important considering it's one of the most used woods in the states).
nice features, and the movement feature is cool to play with, but for the most part it's just a toy. The only real value is the board foot calculator and there are other free apps that do the same.

Good app, update please.

3

By PaulIsabella

The board feet calculator is great and there are some other nice features.
But it would be great if it was updated for iO7.

Woodshop widget

1

By Sassy katrina

Terrible, a waste of money.

ibuild

4

By icabinet

Nice app but needs pics to show color and grain of wood

Useful

4

By Homebrook

I have found this app useful in the shop. However in the wood species comparison it has the stability comparison reversed in the verbiage, interpreting less shrinkage as less stable rather than more stable.

Works!

5

By JC McGrath

Widget works great, I have used the dec to fraction quite quite a few times and like the other functions, absolutely the fastest board foot calculator period... Great tool